Tokyo Station under emergency declaration: April 7, 2020

Japan issued a declaration of emergency on April 7 on the outbreak of coronavirus in seven prefectures –- Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba, Saitama, Osaka, Hyogo, and Fukuoka.

The residents were requested stay home. Event centers and other facilities were asked to close.

Still, there is no compulsory power in the declaration. The situation is different from many countries in the point.

I visited Tokyo station.

The space in front of the station was almost empty. (See also the top photo)

The underground spaces and walkways were almost empty in the afternoon at around 3 o’clock.

Security-guard people were standing here and there.

Some of them were walking around. (See the second photo from the top)

There were few people walking in the business streets near the station.

The trains which run through Tokyo Station district are uncrowded. The 3rd photo is taken in a subway train of the Chiyoda Line.

Spring flowers and flesh green: April 4-8, 2020

It is April.

The world is shaken with the spread of the corona virus, but the season is changing.

It is getting warmer and days are getting longer.

The peak of the cherry blossom season has already over. The pink petals are falling on the ground.

Still, the trees still held flowers in the first week of April.

The new leaves began to grow in various trees.

The photo at the top shows a combination of cherry flower and ginkgo trees' flesh green. 

The second photo also shows cherry and flesh green. 

The left photo is the tulip trees at the Kitazawa walking path.

It is flesh green of the ginkgo trees in the Hanegi Park.

Now, violet and other spring flowers are open.